Stratis Myrivilis

Stratis Myrivilis, whose civil name was Efstratios Stamatopoulos, was born on 30 June 1890 in Sykaminia, on the then Ottoman island of Lesbos. He abandoned his law studies to enlist as a volunteer in the Balkan Wars and was wounded by two bullets in the leg at Kilkis. He then served on the Macedonian front, and later in Asia Minor. Settled in Athens, he directed the programmes of the national radio from 1936 to 1951, founded the National Society of Greek Writers in 1946 and entered the Academy of Athens in 1958. He died in Athens on 19 July 1969.

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